1973 Brooke Bond Picture Cards : History of Adventurers & Explorers
Brooke Bond Picture Cards History of Adventurers & Explorers were released in 1973 by Brooke Bond Oxo Ltd. of Surrey. The 50-card series was distributed in the United Kingdom with purchases
of Brooke Bond Tea. Each card measures
approximately 69 x 37 mm. The History of Adventurers and Explorers album was
available for five pence from participating grocers and mail order.
The collection was illustrated by John Beswick. The card and album text was
authored by Tim Severin. The album was printed in England by The Berkshire
Printing Co. Ltd. The series was made in co-operation with the British
Airports Authority and the Royal Geographic Society.
The series features cards for Yuri Gagarin and Neil Armstrong. Gagarin is depicted aboard the Vostok 3KA spacecraft on April 12, 1961. The "Neil Armstrong" card illustration is erroneously based on a photograph of Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin during the Apollo 11 EVA on July 20, 1969.
The series features cards for Yuri Gagarin and Neil Armstrong. Gagarin is depicted aboard the Vostok 3KA spacecraft on April 12, 1961. The "Neil Armstrong" card illustration is erroneously based on a photograph of Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin during the Apollo 11 EVA on July 20, 1969.
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| 1 | John de Plano Carpini |
| 2 | Marco Polo |
| 3 | Leif Ericsson |
| 4 | Ibn Batuta |
| 5 | Francis Xavier |
| 6 | Christopher Columbus |
| 7 | Vasco da Gama |
| 8 | Ferdinand Magellan |
| 9 | Hernán Cortés |
| 10 | Francisco Pizarro |
| 11 | Francisco de Orellana |
| 12 | Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca |
| 13 | Sir Francis Drake |
| 14 | John Davis |
| 15 | Jacques Cartier |
| 16 | René Robert Cavelier |
| 17 | Abel Janszoon Tasman |
| 18 | William Dampier |
| 19 | James Cook |
| 20 | Mungo Park |
| 21 | René Caillié |
| 22 | Sir Alexander Mackenzie |
| 23 | Meriwether Lewis / William Clark |
| 24 | Sir Richard Burton |
| 25 | John Hanning Speke |
| 26 | David Livingstone |
| 27 | Sir Henry Morton Stanley |
| 28 | John McDouall Stuart |
| 29 | Alexander von Humboldt |
| 30 | Henry Walter Bates |
| 31 | Baron Nils Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld |
| 32 | Fridtjof Nansen |
| 33 | Robert Edwin Peary |
| 34 | Roald Amundsen |
| 35 | Robert Falcon Scott |
| 36 | Ernest Henry Shackleton |
| 37 | Sir John William Alcock / Sir Arthur Whitten Brown |
| 38 | Charles Lindbergh |
| 39 | Amy Johnson |
| 40 | Thor Heyerdahl |
| 41 | Alain Bombard |
| 42 | Sir Edmund Percival Hillary / Norgay Tenzing |
| 43 | Joshua Slocum |
| 44 | Sir Francis Chichester |
| 45 | Wilfrid Patrick Thesiger |
| 46 | Walter William Herbert |
| 47 | Auguste Piccard |
| 48 | Jacques Cousteau |
| 49 | Yuri Gagarin |
| 50 | Neil Alden Armstrong |